London's transport museum, located smack dab in Covent Garden in central London, reopened last Thursday after a two-year, $44 million redesign. This weekend saw lineups (queues?) of two hours long, filled with people who weren't just your stereotypical transit aficionados––those nervous-looking sweaty men who curl up in bed reading train timetables from the summer of 1973––but rather families, young couples on dates, professional types, and tourists. If you can't make it to London, you...

Can a transit system foster love for a city? Torontonians may scoff, but Londoners will nod. The underground—better known as the Tube—is often cited as a reason why so many Londoners take pride in their city. One trait of the Tube—and possibly something that Toronto can learn from—is the way in which stations are named [...]

Toronto is a city of non-stop construction, which means non-stop trucks and trailers. We are also increasingly a city of cyclists, and sometimes the combination of these trucks and bikes can be deadly. Large trucking vehicles and school buses have a huge open space in front of their real wheels, and their raised chassis can [...]

The fine for street racing is now $10,000. There goes my weekend. A man was discovered stabbed to death at 1:30 a.m. this morning on an empty subway car at Kennedy Station. The station was closed for investigation for most of the morning rush hour, and details are limited at this point. We’ll keep you [...]

If it’s an election year it must be time to discuss the future of Toronto City Centre Airport. But you can’t do that unless someone wants to build a bridge or, say, start a new airline to fly out of there – enter Porter Airlines. If you didn’t catch the extensive article in The Star [...]

Torontoist knows how crazy rent can be in this city. It’s gotten so bad that Toronto is slowly creeping up and catching up with New York City for cost of office space. (It now costs $50.47 US per square foot a year to maintain an office in Toronto, up from $37.71 last July, 9% behind [...]

Everyone goes wall-to-wall covering this weekend’s arrest of 17 men on terrorism charges. The Globe plasters the fact that the alleged bombers targetted the Peace Tower in Ottawa. One of the other potential targets was the CN Tower and the Sun and CP points out that it would’ve been hard to topple the CN Tower. [...]

Mayor Miller wants a citizen panel to review a proposed 8.9% pay raise. Currently Toronto City Councillors make significantly less than other southern Ontario city councillors. That being said, good luck with getting that raise during an election year. The Loonie hit a 28-year high probably because we’re a major stable oil producer that isn’t [...]

Transport Minister Jean Lapierre tells Mr. Burns and Mr. Dingwall and any other Crown Corporation Chiefs to just lay off the Twix bars and everything will be okay.

The City of Toronto has decided that “Segways cannot be operated legally on Toronto streets or sidewalks.” They also face limited usability in city parks, and the Ministry of Transport won’t give them license plates, so you can’t take them on most roads. Where does that leave a Segway driver to take his new toy [...]